Miscellaneous
An old video but with the recent Bangkok flooding event, it is interesting to hear architects sharing their vision on climate change. Here is once again Rachel Armstrong who was interviewed by [...] Read »
BIG wins an invited competition to renovate and extend an existing 19602s concrete warehouse situated in a Basel industrial district which is being transformed into an alternative Arts District. [...] Read »
The nature of architecture awards and why we don't go after them.
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CABE figurehead Diane Haigh has left the Design Council to pursue other challenges, it has been announced Read »
Texas A&M University. Graduate Studio. Analog Studies. Fall 2011.
Eric Winkelmann Read »
A comment by Ken Lee on a " Today's archidose" post with his photos of Toyo Ito's Ken Iwata Mother and Child Museum in Imabari City, Ehime, Japan tipped readers off to a nearby museum by the [...] Read »
Normally, I might lament the fact that other projects needed to take priority over this story for a while. In this case, it actually worked out quite fortunately. While this part of the series [...] Read »
The winners of the 3rd International Holcim Awards competition for sustainable construction projects and visions from North America have just been announced. A total of USD 300,000 was presented [...] Read »
Lloyd Crossing ecodistrict plan (image courtesy Mithun) BY BRIAN LIBBY This week from October 26-28, the Portland Oregon Sustainability Institute will present the second annual Ecodistrict Summit, [...] Read »
We want to highlight the discarded lot from the urban framework by emphasizing its shape, building architecture similar to illusion. An illusion required by the town people. Reality that is similar [...] Read »
The October AIA-Southwestern Oregon chapter meeting featured Mark Heizer of the State of Oregon Building Codes Division . Mark provided a comprehensive overview of the Oregon Reach Code , the [...] Read »
Architectural Works
Architect: Estudio Guto Requena + i|o Design Location: Sao Paulo, Brasil Project Team: Estudio Guto Requena: Guto Requena (concept), Lucas Siciliato, Paulo de Camargo; i|o Design: Gabriela Carneiro [...] Read »
On October 20, The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO) and Richard Meier & Partners Architects launched Latin America’s first retrospective exhibition celebrating the forty-eight [...] Read »
Architects: SO-IL Location: Seoul, South Korea Client: Kukje Gallery Project Area: 1,500 sqm Photographs: Courtesy of SO-IL For Kukje Gallery in Seoul, SO — IL has developed a master plan [...] Read »
Federico Soriano Pelaez shared with us their third prize winning proposal for the New Taipei City Museum of Art. Their aim was to design a museum which contains all museums. A museum which is [...] Read »
Australia-based Andrew Maynard has shared a new type of governmental building with us with a project that is as much a statement about pushing the realm of architecture forward, as it is [...] Read »
Architect: WA Design Inc Location: Tahoe Donner, California, USA Project Team: David Stark Wilson, Chris Parlette, Torin Etter, Ben Howell, Eoi Takagi Landscape: WA design Engineer: Kenneth Hughes [...] Read »
Dezeen Screen: in this next movie from our series filmed at the OMA/Progress exhibition at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf talks about the Dutch architecture studio’s preoccupation [...] Read »
Architect: Zimmerman Architectural Studios Location: Sheboygan, Wisconsin Project Year: 2008 Engineer: Harwood Engineering Consultants Photographs: Greg Gent, Kevin ODonnell Designed [...] Read »
[ October 26, 2011; 19:00 to 20:30. ] For one night only on October 26th from 7:00-8:30pm, P.E.A.R. (Paper for Emerging Architectural Research) will be performing live for an evening of readings, [...] Read »
Architects: [baragaño] Location: Asturias, Spain Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 3,338 sqm Photographs: Mariela Apollonio The concept of the new headquarters of the Metal Foundation, in Aviles, [...] Read »
Heres an extremely pointy apartment block by Japanese architects EASTERN Design Office . (more&) Read »
DIRTT Environmental Solutions has created a modular wall system that minimizes construction waste, is easily reconfigurable, and serves as a platform for plug and play sustainable furnishings. [...] Read »
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We often dont give much thought to the pesky little stickers affixed to our produce, quickly just pulling them off and flicking them from our fingertips into a trashcan. But considering the [...] Read »
I love this outfit that was photographed by Facehunter during fashion week. The color combination makes a lovely ensemble and also decorating scheme. The pop of black adds a little punctuation [...] Read »
By Gerry McCaughey, CEO of Infineco LLC* As Americans debate whether prefab is a greener way to build, those active in the discussion should not be surprised when their dialogue receives puzzled [...] Read »
click images for larger view Nestled in blandness between a 1907 neoclassical apartment house and the lumpen-Gothic parking podium of Lagrange's Pinnacle like a swift poke in the eye, it's the [...] Read »
"The Pritzker prize, the Nobel prize in architecture, is awarded to honor those who build works demonstrating 'durability, utility, and beauty'. This is widely accepted as the yardsticks for [...] Read »
Read the rest of Transforming Crates Unfold to Reveal Incredible Furniture Sets and Foosball Table Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "green furniture", crates, furniture design, [...] Read »
Steven Holl Architects announced last week that the construction of Campbell Sports Center at Columbia University just started. This new 48,000-square-feet building, implanted on a sloping site [...] Read »
Marc Jacobs will present Katie Grand the award for fashion innovator of the year. Marina Abramovic will accept the award for Ai Weiwei... for best art innovator. Jonathan Safran Foer will present [...] Read »
Technology
Read the rest of Andrew Maynards Adaptable Mobile Parliament Building Lets The People Be Heard Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", adaptable, andrew [...] Read »
Read the rest of The Methow Cabin is a Cozy Washington Ski Retreat with a Tiny Footprint Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: eco design, Eggleston Farkas Architects, green home, [...] Read »
When the tsunami struck Japan earlier in the year, the country suffered a devastating loss of life and a nuclear meltdown. However it seems like it will not be the only country affected by the [...] Read »
Read the rest of Berlin Showroom Features Sherlock Holmes-Style Bookcase That Opens to a Secret Room! Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: berlin, eco design, green design, industrial [...] Read »
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This crazy Airborne Metro, if ever built, could reduce emissions from air travel 80% by revolutionizing the way we fly. The giant, 3,000 passenger craft is a nuclear powered airport and shuttle [...] Read »
The construction industry is experiencing its worst decline for 30 years, losing £32 billion since 2007, according to the latest forecasts from the Construction Products Association Read »
Texas A&M University. Graduate Studio. Analog Studies. Fall 2011.
Maryam Rezafar Read »
Scarpa did that to death, and that is how he became an eminence. He emerges through this discourse. The other way of being polemical, the de la Sota mode, was to continue an early Miesian discourse, [...] Read »
Even though Hurricane Irene blew through on August 27th without flooding the subways, which were rendered prophylactically still and silent for a day, a pesky summer storm in 2007 dumped so much [...] Read »
Very excited to have been invited by Rob Holmes of mammoth to give his Landscape Studio a version of the talk on the Middle Branch that I delivered at the ACSA Conference in March in Montreal. [...] Read »
I'm one of those people who can't stand Frank Sinatra, (yes, we do exist), but that wouldn't stop me from staying the night in the house designed by E. Stewart Williams in 1947 for Frank and [...] Read »
The 52 two teams competing to redesign Chicagos Navy pier have been narrowed down to 11. Lots of heavy hitters made the cut, including teams headed by BIG, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas/Studio Gang, [...] Read »
The Abu Dhabi company building a branch of the Guggenheim museum in the Emirati capital said Sunday it has temporarily dropped plans to award a major construction contract , raising questions [...] Read »
The word celebrity and the word architect are basically incompatible. I know its come to pass that some of us have become famous, but its a temporary condition, a strange pact: We get a lot [...] Read »
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Attention All DIY Halloween Costume Crafters! Were closing in on the spookiest day of the year, and we know that youve been busy at work brewing up some spectacular Halloween costume ideas. [...] Read »
If you dont live near Detroit, you may have missed a remarkable change. While in the past the Detroit 3 automakersGeneral Motors, Ford and Chryslerdidnt take input from outsiders (even while [...] Read »
Architects expect job cuts before Christmas as workloads continue to fall, according to research by the Royal Institute of British Architects Read »
My younger son became a big close up magic trick enthusiast earlier this year. He was mainly learning card tricks and has a YouTube channel where he performs and teaches others what he learned. [...] Read »
On Saturday I'll again be conducting the tour that I did about a week ago as part of OHNY . But this time it will be backwards, meaning it will start at Union Square Park and snake its way up [...] Read »
If Cornell University were to win the citys competition to build a new science graduate school, it would install on Roosevelt Island almost four acres of solar panels, 500 geothermal wells, [...] Read »
NANCY HOLT: Sightlines The Graham Foundation Four West Burton Place Chicago Through December 17 Beginning her artistic career in the 1960s, Nancy Holt helped pioneer the Land Art movement alongside [...] Read »
We have to be careful not to criticise things just because they don't appeal to us as architects Julien de Smedt Giant melting da Vinci artwork recreated on Arctic sea ice | Aberrant Architecture [...] Read »
City & Urbanism
The increase in the suburbs was 53 percent, compared with 26 percent in cities. The recession accelerated the pace: two-thirds of the new suburban poor were added from 2007 to 2010.
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